but we did have an opportunity to speak with the grandfather of leyla salazar, one of the victims in this tremendous tragedy. he said that, yes, he picked up the report but his mind was made up before he even got here. when he found out that officers waited 77 minutes in that hallway before even seeing a video or a report, he knew. there is nothing that is going to change its mind about how he, feels about the situation. he feels that it is a failure, there's nothing that could be done to bring back his granddaughter. and he says the thing he still doesn't see in this report is accountability. no one has been fired, he hasn't seen any structural changes. that is what he is waiting for. but he says he won't be attending that meeting with the committee because there's really nothing that they could say to him at this point that is going to make any of this better. we also spoke with the parent of a second grader who is at robb elementary school when that tragedy struck and he described what it was like seeing that video that was released earlier this week. i want to play a little bit o

we spoke with the grandfather of leyla salazar, one of the victims killed in this shooting, about hision to getting at this report as he was picking it up. i want to play some of what he shared with us. take a listen. >> if i was these officers, i would leave town. they don't deserve to be here. this report doesn't mean anything to me. because what happened has already happened. is there any change? is anybody fired? is the chief still being paid? what is going on? nobody else got answers for this! >> as you have mentioned, yasmin, it feels like the blame is sort of being spread out amongst all of these agencies. i think what a lot of folks here in the community aren't seeing is the accountability piece. okay, now we have a better understanding of the facts. we have a better understanding of where things went wrong. what does that mean going forward? what happens next? yasmin? >> right. yes. exactly right. i can only imagine what we just heard from what you just played there, reverberated throughout the entire community, not even necessarily believing this report. because nobody has b

vincent salazar, whose grand daughter, leyla salazar, who died in the shooting, told the new york timesy went to where they were supposed to be. but they didn't go in for action. it's like it didn't matter about these children, the way they responded. they were just standing there. on sunday, a special texas house committee investigating the shooting both show the video to the families and is expected to present the findings of this preliminary report before disclosing it to the public. joining us now is tony plohetski, investigative reporter for the austin american-statesman. tony, thank you very much for being here. first things first, how much confidence do you have that the you've all day -- that the investigators are going to show, or we're going to show, the families, the video that you end the newspaper released on tuesday? >> what i can say is that the pressure to show this video to the families had been increasing over days. and there had been a growing chorus, even amongst state officials, including governor greg abbott, for this video to be released. now, let me say, jonathan

having spoken to that grandfather of leyla salazar, he tells me that the other thing aside from accountabilitys that he wants to look into gun reform. and what that could mean, because especially when you read this report, you see how the shooter had -- was airing towards violent tendencies, had talked about doing something. and still he was able to get his hands on these ar-15s. for that grandfather, it raises serious questions about how that was able to happen. and so these are some of the conversations that are coming up among the folks that i am speaking to about what comes next for this community as they continued to grief and try to move forward. >> absolutely. a lot of questions answered today. but still a lot out there. and still the search for accountability. priscilla and jim, thank you so much for both of you. we will have continuing coverage of this story throughout the night, here on american voices. next hour? i will speak with texas state senator roland -- about this report and if there's enough political will in austin from keeping this from ever happening again. coming up next